I Could Paddle All Day Long: Refining the Paddle

Start Time	Passamaquoddy-Maliseet	English
00:15	Yut ehta toke iyey...	Now this one...
00:19	Ntahcuwi-na yut ulehtun kulopiw	I have to fix it all around
00:25	naka, iyey, kiyahqikon.	and make sure it's straight.
00:29	Kiyahqapotomon.	Sight along it to make sure it's straight.
00:30	Nkiyahqapotomon, ya.	Yes, see that it's straight.
00:34	Naka yut iyey pipuwekson kekesk yut.	And make it a little thinner here.
00:39	Nulehtun-ote elikok.	I fix mine the same way.
00:40	Then you can't be heard paddling.	Ma-te wen mote-sukiw.
00:56	ma-te nkoti-tomihtihikew.	I don't want to be chopping at the water.
01:01	Aha. Aha, nit-ona eci, iyey,	Yes, and when I paddle around,
01:05	ali-suki, ma-te nkoti-moke-sukiw.	I don't want to paddle too much, either.
01:09	Kinaq knomiyasoponik neke	But did you see those people
01:11	weckuwi-sukulticik yet 'ci-maciw ihik	that time paddling from
01:14	pitok tokkiw yut, ihik, nahtokayiw?	the Pit to the shore down here?
01:18	Nit-te latokiyetul oqitonul!	The canoes were zig-zagging like that!
01:20	Aha, ma-te 'tawi-sukultiwiyik.	Yeah, they didn't know how to paddle.
01:22	Yut-te tomk pomi-sukultuwok,	First they paddled on this side,
01:24	apc yut oloqiw.	then on this side.
01:26	Nil naci-pomi-suki,	When I go paddling,
01:29	yut-te npomi-suk,	I could paddle
01:31	yut-te nkisi-tehp pomi-suk 'kekiw.	all day long like this.
01:33	-- 'Kekiw, ya.	Yes, all day long.
01:34	Neket alhutahsi yut, iyey...	When I was guiding,
01:36	nit-te eltek my paddle.	my paddle was positioned like that
01:40	Tehpu kpomi-suk.	You just paddled along.
01:43	Sesolahki-te ntutem...,	All of a sudden the guy [asks me],
01:47	"How do you do that?"	"How do you do that?"
01:48	Ntiyahpon, "Do what?"	I told him, "Do what?"
01:49	Itom, "We're moving all day long,	He said, "We're moving all day long,
01:51	and you don't move."	and you don't move."
01:58	Nwikuwaci-alhutahs 'sami, iyey,	I enjoy guiding because I like to watch the people
02:04	nwikuwaci-tpinuwak ahtoli-ptahahtit nomehs.	catching one fish after another.
02:09	Peskuwok 'tawamhotuwok,	Some of them know how to fish,
02:11	peskuwok-ona...	some of them...
02:13	Well, peskuwok tehpu	Well, some of them
02:16	wikuwaci-aliyawotuwok naka 'tamhotiniya.	just like being outdoors and fishing.
02:18	Ya, qocomok.	Yes, outdoors.
02:20	Ya, wikuwaci-aliye qocomok.	Yes, they like being outdoors.